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Fixing clinical trials with Manuri Gunawardena, HealthMatch
Jul 12, 2020
Manuri Gunawardena, Founder of HealthMatch, shares her experience building a platform to accelerate new treatments. Topics include her childhood fascination with neuroscience, raising money for a startup, the importance of clinical trials, and scaling operations in a startup.
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Quick takeaways
- Clinical trials are crucial to the medical system and often suffer from operational barriers and inefficiencies that prevent new treatments from progressing.
- Health tech platforms like HealthMatch can solve the flaws in clinical trial recruitment by digitizing the process, improving accessibility, and accelerating drug development.
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From Neurosurgeon Aspirations to Tech Startup
Manuri Gunawadina, who initially planned to become a neurosurgeon, found herself building a tech startup instead. She developed a platform that accelerates the process of bringing new treatments and medications to market. Despite her initial interest in science, it was an autobiography of a neurosurgeon that inspired her to pursue medicine. Through her medical training and experiences, Manuri's focus shifted towards addressing the inefficiencies in clinical trials and the difficulty patients face in accessing them. This prompted her to start Health Match, a platform connecting patients with clinical trials.
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